What would be classed as these players specialities?

-Reshevsky

-Spassky

-Staunton

-Steinitz

-Tarrasch

-Chigorin

-Fischer

What I mean if it's unclear is like I've seen games by them all but I can't remember their main "weapon" like Kasparov is very tactical, Karpov is positional, Capablanca is endgames so if somebody could give me what I should be looking for in that player's games that would be very helpful... also any other names to learn from as well as their "speciality" would be greatly appreciated too.   Thanks

See the forum : "Types of players " , by Phil Da Masta here on chess.com, they do not give these names, but it is a start !

@chessmicky ... I know that they all have the potential to do great in each of the other areas but they each have an area within chess that they excel at so I'm just after knowing which areas they are... @RomyGer thanks I'll check it out

Hmm, I only know Spassky!

Reshevsky--dynamic positional player; great middlegame, great ending, poor opening, missed stalemates.

Spassky--dynamic, aggressive, classical, sacrificial

Staunton--positional, restrictor, good finisher

Steinitz--dynamic, positional, sacrificial, theorist, sometimes insane

Tarrasch--dynamic, positional, romantic, attacker, theorist

Chigorin--great attacker, radical ideas, theorist, bad nerves

Fischer--the whole nine yards; limited (yet deep) openings, strong middlegame, accurate endgame, positional, tactical, pressure player

Hope this helps.

chessmicky

The Reshevsky comment was made tongue-in-cheek, and I'll apologize for it, but he did famously miss several stalemates (something like 1 every 8 years).  He also was an incredible time-pressure freak, banging out brilliant moves with his flag just hanging, waiting to fall.  And thanks for the anecdotes about Fischer; I was just learning about international chess when he won at Palma.  Good times.

Geller did not hate Fischer. Also, he has a plus score against Fischer. Now , Botwinnik , that's another matter.